Managed Identity (MI) service has been around for a little while now and is becoming a standard for providing applications running in Azure access to other Azure resources. We're going to be taking a look at using MI in a few areas in the future, so I thought it was worth a primer on MI.

It's been a while since I have posted in my series intended to help those coming from AWS to get to grips with Azure; however, I was reminded a few days ago about the post I planned to do on networking. If you've not yet read them, parts 1 and 2 can be found here: Part 1 – Identity Part 2 – Virtual

Connectivity issues that involve Network Security groups can be frustrating to solve. Network Watcher brings tools that can help identifiy which rules are blocking (or allowing) your traffic and help you solve these issues quickly.

If your using Azure Keyvault to store your application secrets then you want this to be your single point of truth for all applications. In this article learn how to mount your Azure Key Vault secrets directly into your Kubernetes Pods with the Kuberentes Key Vault Flex Volume.